Parents of Syed Ashraf Hossain Jewel and Syed Mohammad Rivel who were murdered in the city's Mohammadpur area have appealed to Prime Minister Khalerda Zia for her intervention to bring the killers to justice.

The principal accused in the double murder case, Kamal Pasha, is moving in Mohammadpur area under the protection of mastaans and police, they claimed at a press conference at the Jatiya Press Club yesterday. "He (Pasha) was seen seven or eight days ago along with his associates," Amjad Hossain, father of the two murdered young men said.

Amjad is a senior journalist and former editor of a monthly magazine, Detective.

They said police could not arrest the killer in more than 19 months.

Jewel, 27 and Rivel, 24, were killed in the morning of May 5 last year.

Amjad alleged that the killers are threatening them and they are passing days in deep insecurity.

The press conference has been organised in view of threats, he said. "We are now passing days in a state of deep insecurity".

Amjad said Khaleda Zia, the then Leader of the Opposition in Parliament, had visited their house and urged the then government to punish the killers after proper

investigation. But nothing has happened.

He demanded reinvestigation into the case, alleging that the charge sheet was prepared as per directive of the then Awami League MP Mockbul Hossain. "There was no investigation into the case. It (charge sheet) was prepared as per instruction of Mockbul," he said.

According to earlier newspaper reports, Kamal Pasha, an accused in many cases, went to the residence of Amjad Hossain in a car in the morning of May 5 and started calling Jewel by name.

Rivel, younger brother of Jewel, came out of their second floor residence. Pasha asked him to get into the car and then took him to nearly Kisholoy School only 300 yards off the residence of Mockbul.

When Rivel got out of the car at about 7:40am to buy cigarette, Pasha shot him dead.

Pasha came back to Amjad's house and called Jewel saying he had an urgent work with him. He took Jewel to nearby Lalmatia power supply office, shot him dead at about 8 am and fled away leaving the car.

Jewel and Rivel were the second and the forth of Amjad's five sons. Jewel was a field worker of Proshika and Rivel was an HSC student.

Their mother Hanufa Hossain and brothers Syed Jaynul Abedin and Syed Afjal Hossain were also present at the press conference.